Comments by "jacq danieles" (@jacqdanieles) on "Силиконовый занавес" channel.

  1. The border has been an issue for decades. Even Orange Jeebus couldn't solve it. So don't conflate that bullsh1t argument with the commitment we made by signing the Budapest Memorandum.
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  2.  @alanmcrae3679  this yank agrees with you. This war would not have happened if decisive action had been taken to deter putin in 2014. After Crimea was annexed, the response was a slap on the wrist. In the build-up to the invasion, we had sufficient intel that an invasion was imminent. The response was to evacuate embassies & citizens -- in effect clearing the decks for invasion. Instead, NATO should have put "peacekeepers" in the country. Putin would have been checkmated.
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  3. ​ @SiliconCurtain  fantastic work Jonathan!👍
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  4. I fully agree!
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  5.  @brianmulholland2467  all good points
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  6. I use his exact response when replying to claims of "Ukraine was shelling Donbas for 8 years"
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  7.  @kkpenney444  I could be wrong, but I think the reference is to Russian conscripts.
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  8. ​@joesoy9185 god help us all if trump wins in November
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  9.  @treyd3433  Hertling is good. Hodges is better, IMO.
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  10.  @johnbaker5565  ... which underscores the OP's point
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  11. Keep smoking your copium, vatnik
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  12. The only way there will be any justice is if the current regime is toppled & a new democratic government hands over the war criminals.
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  13. I cited an interesting article by Mark Galeotti. But the algorithm, in its infinite wisdom, has deleted the post 🤷‍♂️
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  14. It's precisely the 5% that he was referring to.
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  15. You're in a minority -- assuming you're not lying about being American. As an American myself, I say suck it up, buttercup. Plenty more of that funding from where it came ... 😎
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  16.  @ragingmonk6080  ww2 wasn't a world war when it started, genius. Remember Chamberlain?
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  17. From 2014: 2014-09-03 The Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine "After nearly six months of fighting, Moscow’s sloppy war has yielded at least one big reward: expanded control over some of the most mineral-rich lands in Europe. Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium and massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars. SecDev’s analysis indicates that at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals are now under Russian control. That figure accounts for nearly half the dollar value of the 2,209 deposits reviewed by the company. In addition to 63 percent of the country’s coal deposits, Moscow has seized 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium."
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  18. Himars, javelins, & patriots are getting smoked? Lol, you've been watching too many Konashenko fantasy-series briefings. Or you're the one doing the "smoking".
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  19. Keep drinking the Kremlin kool-aid
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  20. Do you know the meaning of "illiterate"?
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  21. I don't think he's an economist
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  22. Snyder & Kotkin are very authoritative sources on Russia & Ukraine.
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  23. Says the hypocrite living in the west
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  24.  @Oregon123  move to pootin's wonderland, hypocrite
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  25.  @alexbayer2365  there's a lot of truth to his post. Konstantin is typical of a large segment of the Russian population: willing to keep their heads down, not rock the boat or make waves, & go about their daily lives while the mafioso government ran roughshod over them. They acquiesced to the annexation of Crimea; the covert, undeclared war in Donbas; the invasion of Ukraine; the subsequent war crimes, brutality, & barbarism -- & the bridge too far was being personally mobilized & sent to the meat grinder. Only when their personal well-being was threatened did some of them take action. Even then, the best they could muster was to flee to a safe haven where they could continue to go about their daily lives. I will change my opinion when I hear of organized groups of resistance becoming active, or when significant forces of a Russian Freedom legion start making themselves visible & heard. Btw, reporting him for "discrimination" for voicing his opinion is being a snowflake. Be better.
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  26. Very well put
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  27. I remember a recent debate which involved him & Konstantin Kisin. Kisin wiped the floor with him.
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  28. To take it further: in many former British colonies like Kenya, Zimbabwe, small populations of British still exist. They have been there for multiple generations. After independence, they remained in those countries & chose to take the passports of the newly independent countries (most chose not to & returned to Britain). But the ones that remained now identify as citizens of the independent countries & not as British, but "of British origin" ie "Kenyan citizen of British origin" So it would be ludicrous if Britain suddenly invaded to "protect ethnic British".
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  29.  @robgrey6183  if you're tired, go curl up in the fetal position. The majority of Americans support Ukraine funding. We're not fighting their war. We're supplying them the capabilities to fight it themselves.
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  30. Steaming pile of kremlin horse manure 👏
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  31. Nothing wrong with "keeping the money & gun flowing", unless you sympathize with the invader.
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  32. Nah, it wasn't Trump. It was Bolton. 2 weeks ago Trump said he'd end the war in 24 hours. How do you think he'll do that? By stopping support to Ukraine & leaving the carcass for pootin to pick thru the bones. His record of leaving the Afghan government & the Kurds twisting in the wind is unambiguous. He doesn't know or care about geopolitics or global consequences. I agree that the Obama response to Crimea was weak & inadequate, & it emboldened pootin. You're faulting Biden -- but at least he was able to hold the NATO alliance together, unlike the bull in the China shop approach that Trump used to antagonize the alliance. As for that corruption dig at Biden, you just revealed your blind partisanship. Unless, of course, you can present the proof.
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  33. What makes you so sure Ruzzia will not lose? Why did the USSR lose in Afghanistan?
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  34. The latter. Prigozhin is an ex-con turned food vendor / "entrepreneur"
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  35. Cope harder, Ivan
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  36.  @alexbayer2365  calling out their barbarism isn't "russophobia" -- unless you're virtue signaling. A modern army doesn't behave the way the Russian army does unless there is something very wrong deep in their culture. Their actions in ww2 were a glimpse into that barbarism. The mass rapes in Berlin is 1 example. German soldiers fled to the West or fought to the death rather than capitulate to Russia the Soviets. And the barbarity in the ongoing conflict -- from Mariupol to Bucha -- has shown us not much has changed in 80 years.
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  37. Your gut is right. From the Mueller indictments of GRU agents to the arrest of Maria Butina, from "Unit 29155" & "Unit 74455" to the St. Petersburg Troll Agency, the signs are plentiful.
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  38. Precisely
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  39. If you're going to cite MacGregor, you've already lost all credibility.
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  40.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  some of the colonel's greatest hits: Feb 25, 2022 "If they don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them." "The battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over, all of the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off. You have a concentration down in the Southeast of 30 or 40,000 of them, and if they don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them."
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  41.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  Feb 28, 2022 "The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle," he said. "They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over."
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  42.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  March 3, 2022 On Thursday, Macgregor told Carlson that he believes Ukrainians have already been defeated and that both nations "are very close right now to a ceasefire." "The war is really over for the Ukrainians," Macgregor said. "They have been grounded to bits. There's no question about that despite what we report on our mainstream media. So the real question for us at this stage is, if there is an agreement, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government? Or are we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as Ukrainian war?"
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  43.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  Sep 9 2022 Speaking to the most popular U.S. talk show host, alleged Russia-Ukraine war expert Douglas Macgregor said that by the time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a keynote speech to a defense industry trade group later that week, “this entire war may be over.” The events of the days following the interview showed Macgregor’s comments, unchallenged by Carlson, were in fact a direct inversion of the reality that played out. Ukraine liberated almost 3,500 square miles; the Russian front in Kharkiv collapsed and military personnel fled
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  44.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  March 6, 2022 "... the eastern part of Ukraine is firmly in Russian hands, but again, the Russians are not seizing the territory. They are destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus”. Later in the year, ruzzia announced the annexations ...
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  45.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  March 25, 2022, RIA Novosti quoted Macgregor as falsely claiming in an interview with the “Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom” show, that a majority of the residents of eastern Ukraine were Russians. Calling the Russia-occupied regions of eastern Ukraine “these republics,” in language used by the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign, Macgregor said: “These republics are fundamentally pro-Russian. And, in general, mostly Russians live in eastern Ukraine. … They should not be forced to speak Ukrainian, write Ukrainian, they are not Ukrainians.” But the 2001 census, the last before Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, showed that most of eastern Ukraine residents are ethnic Ukrainians, with ethnic Russians the region’s largest minority.
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  46.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  "a stopped clock is right twice a day" ...
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  47.  @oddvardmyrnes9040  the people who fled Donbas are still part of that area. Just because they have fled doesn't mean they no longer exist. And even if the population is majority pro ruzzian, it doesn't mean Ukraine should give up the territory to rebels. Ruzzia fought 2 bloody wars over Chechnya.
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  48. I don't understand how Trump's corruption gets a pass.
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  49. Putin did the same in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
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  50.  @operator9858  considering oneself "russian" & desiring to be under pootin's boot are 2 very different things.
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